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Mango Salad Recipe with Hearts of Palm, Radishes, Lime, and Cilantro

I've always been a bit cookbook-challenged, which means I rarely make a recipe the way the cookbook author writes it. I do use cookbooks endlessly though to get ideas for flavor combinations. This recipe combined ingredients paired with mangos in two of my favorite cookbooks, with a few of my own food preferences thrown in. I was completely taken with the combination of flavors (and once again I ate all the salad in the photo before I even looked at the photos - very bad food blogger!) It does have strong flavors, but if you like all the ingredients, definitely give this one a try.

This salad has a lot to choose from for Weekend Herb Blogging, where you can write about any herb, plant, vegetable, or flower, but I'm going to feature hearts of palm, an ingredient I learned to love in college, when I worked in a French restaurant. They actually are the hearts of palm trees, and for years this ingredient was controversial because it could only be obtained by killing the tree. In recent years growers have managed to produce a variety known as peach palms which produce shoots which can be harvested while the main tree keeps producing. Harvesting is labor intensive though, so this is still an expensive product. Hearts of palm are great for dieters, since they're low in fat, low in calories, low in carbs, high in fiber, and contain no cholesterol. They're also delicious, with a slightly crunchy texture and a mild but pleasantly nutty flavor. I've only had canned or bottled hearts of palm, but I'm imagining the fresh ones are even more wonderful. Anh from Food Lover's Journey is hosting Weekend Herb Blogging this week, and I know she's a fan of this type of salad with assorted ingredients.

Peel mango and cut into pieces about 3/4 inch square. (There are good instructions for How to Cut a Mango at Simply Recipes if you haven't done it.) Drain hearts of palm, then cut hearts of palm and radishes in half lengthwise and cut into thick half-moon slices. Slice green onions, and wash, dry, and chop cilantro.

The mango in this salad would make it phase two or three for the South Beach Diet, but all other ingredients here are very low on the glycemic index, making this a good choice for most any low-glycemic eating plan. I think this would be great served with something like Grilled Fusion Chicken or Grilled Salmon with Asian Dipping Sauce.

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33 comments:

Kalyn, It sounds very good, for a longer while now I wanted to use mango in something, usually I just eat it like an apple :) And I like the idea of adding palm hearts, I tried them once and I did not like it but I did not prepare them... I just opened the tin and tried to eat them... I want to give them second chance so I may use your salad very soon... My monther in low is comning soon to stay with us for couple of weeks so I want to surprise her with some nice recipes... I will be also learning from her about Dominican cuisine, and probably posting more Caribbean food next month :) Have a nice day, Margot

This looks delicious Kalyn. As soon as I saw the mango and hearts of palm I was thinking cilantro. I'm sure its delicious. I'm coming around to the crunchy pepperiness of radishes as well. Sound definitely worth trying.

I'm such a bad blogger lately about responding to comments. I do read them all when I moderate and appreciate all the nice thoughts. I'm just not keeping up too well with checking in here, but I hope people realize I'm reading them even when I haven't responded here.

I was just eating your green bean and heart of palm with red pepper and olive salad today (although I think you may have a more concise name for it) and am looking forward to my version with fresh asparagus which I have on good authority should be in my CSA box this week. I may have to try this yummy mango salad as well...(oh and you may want to edit the title of the recipe...it says papaya)

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